My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. - my hometown - right in the middle of our old neighborhood downtown when a homeless couple started a fire to keep warm and the entire building went up. My cousin died trying to save homeless people who had already left the building.
Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.
Half of NYC's homeless populations are families. Homeless people have been ignored for too long. I'll just say this: If you are a family on the brink of eviction you are 80% less likely to get evicted if you have legal counsel. However, there is no right to legal counsel in housing court. It would cost the city $12,500 to grant that family legal counsel. Meanwhile, the average stay for a homeless family in a shelter once they have been evicted cost the city $45,000. So not only does it seem like the right thing to do morally, it's also the right thing to do fiscally.
I'm dating a homeless woman. It was easier talking her into staying over.
Not all Americans are living the American dream by a long shot. Many can't even imagine it. There are impoverished Americans, the poor and the homeless, the hungry and the hopeless, many unable to read and write. There are Americans gone astray, the kids dragged down by drugs, the shattered families, the teenage mothers struggling to cope. Then there are Americans uneasy, troubled and bewildered by the dizzying pace of change.
I am the greatest tennis player. The other players are like coins in my pocket that I give to a homeless man.
We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.
There's something I learned when I was homeless: Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over.
Once I saw a homeless man wearing his underwear on top of his pants. Now we say, why don't the homeless just go out and get a job? If he's wearing his underwear on top of his pants, I doubt his resume is in order, and I don't think he's going to make it too far in the interview process. In fact, I'm pretty sure that McDonald's has a no underwear over your pant policy.
Every single thing I go through, I remember I was homeless, and I draw from it!
Many overlook the fact that Jesus was homeless. He did not only teach the poor; He lived among them.
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.
I'm practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life.
I have donated money to the kids overseas, the open hand project and the homeless.
I know what it's like to be hungry. I know what it's like to be homeless. I know what it's like to have to choose between breaking the law and feeding yourself. I know what it's like to take meals at shelters and at Salvation Army facilities. I know what it's like to beg for money on the streets.
I made The Instigator while I was homeless as a result of 911, and there was some stuff on there that was really raw and directly out of that experience
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
With me, you never know what is going to happen
I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots - the bottom of the bottom - and I have to rationalize it,. . . Am I pushing out the homeless?